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The Dotcom bust
by Juha Saarinen
Another year has started and on the copyright crime front, it looks like Kim Dotcom will spend a good deal more time in jail while the legal machinery grinds on to decide whether or not they can be extradited.
My bet is that everyone arrested will be extradited, no matter what arguments the Megaupload defence team comes up with. Judge McNaughton disregarded some of the wilder claims from the US authorities, but with prosecution threatening to seek the maximum penalty for Dotcom et al...
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Powers of Ten on SOPA
by Nat Torkington, Internet Guru
The IBM Powers of Ten video is a classic: as the stolid narrator ticks off powers of ten, the camera pulls back or zooms in and a new layer of complexity is revealed. We need a Powers of Ten video for SOPA.
At the initial scale, Hollywood lobbyists convinced Congress to push a bill through that would give Hollywood a measure of control over Internet sites by facilitating DNS takedowns, placing liability on site operators, and generally placing restrictions on Internet businesses designed to benefit existing content distributors.
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How do we advance software engineering?
by Bertrand Meyer, Computer Scientist
Airplanes today are incomparably safer than 20, 30, 50 years ago: 0.05 deaths per billion kilometers. That's not by accident.
Rather, it's by accidents. What has turned air travel from a game of chance into one of the safest modes of traveling is the relentless study of crashes and other mishaps. In the US the National Transportation Safety Board has investigated more than 110,000 accidents since it began its operations in 1967. Any accident must, by law, be investigated thoroughly.
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Chris Date (Database legend) coming to NZ
by Spotlight event
C. J. Date is an internationally renown independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant specializing in relational database technology (author of "An Introduction to Database Systems" which has sold some 850,000 copies and is used worldwide). Now he's coming to New Zealand in March.
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